Install OpenWrt on TP-Link EAP245 v3

[maggoo]

Hi!

I would like to flash OpenWRT to my TP-Link EAP245v3. The device is currently running on stock firmware 2.4.0.

First of all, thanks a lot to all you guys for putting so much work in bringing OpenWRT to the 245v3. I followed the "Adding OpenWrt support for TP-Link EAP245" thread, but there's one important question left.

According to https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tp-link_eap245_v3 I executed "cliclientd stopcs" successfully. But how can I proceed now?

May I directly flash the image linked under "Firmware OpenWrt snapshot Install" or do I need to modify that image in any way? I'm a bit concerned about the mentioned RSA signature check...

Thanks in advance for your help!

[mk24]

The "factory" build listed should be ready to use. Worst that would happen is the stock firmware rejects the file and will not flash it.

[maggoo]

Hi!

Thanks a lot for your reply! I dared to flash the factory image and it worked like a charm.

To whom it may be of any interest: After flashing the device was reachable as 192.168.1.1 and passwordless root. So the first thing I did was setting a password and a new IP, because I'm using a different subnet here:

ip addr add 192.168.50.80/24
ip route add default via 192.168.50.1
echo "nameserver 192.168.50.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf

Now my EAP245 v3 was able to update the packages and install luci as descibed in https://medium.com/openwrt-iot/openwrt-adding-a-web-interface-4bcdf1279a6f:

opkg update
opkg install luci
/etc/init.d/uhttpd start
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable

After reboot luci was runnig, just as on any of my other OpenWrt devices.

Thanks again to you all!